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(Image) - On the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind,’   Courtney Love   shocked the band’s fans by stating that Kurt Cobain wouldn’t be dead if Eddie Vedder had achieved fame sooner. The ‘Nevermind’ album includes many tracks that led Nirvana to  success  and made the band widely recognized in the grunge scene. These tracks were ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ ‘Come as You are,’ and ‘Lithium.’ ‘Nevermind’ celebrated its 30th anniversary on September 24, and for this occasion, Kurt Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, gave an interview and spoke about the album. According to Love,  life would have been simpler for Nirvana  if the band had released ‘In Bloom’ as the debut track on the album. Nirvana’s fame escalated quickly after ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ became the first track in the album. Love claimed that she wanted ‘In Bloom’ to be the lead single, but no one listened to her. She continued to add that if Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder had gotten famous before Nir...

  (Image) - Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil discussed Kurt Cobain lacking charisma live during the band’s early days in a new   Rolling Stone   interview, before he says Cobain and Nirvana developed strong confidence as performers just a year or so later.  He also discussed Chris Cornell’s thoughts on Kurt Cobain. I’m picking Bleach for this list on the strength of ‘Negative Creep,’ which would be amazing as a hardcore song or as sort of a metal-grunge song. I also love the riffs on “Blew” and “Swap Meet”; I’d listen to those over and over.  That record was so popular with our band when we were touring. We’d play Fugazi, Margin Walker; Meat Puppets II; Neil Young, After the Gold Rush; and Nirvana, Bleach, all the time on a cassette player in our van. - Nivana opened up for us a few times, and we were like, ‘Shit, these guys are good.’ I remember thinking they’ve got some cool songs and Kurt could sing, but their stage presence really didn’t have that c...

  (Image) - The praise of Bob Dylan must surely be the food of the gods. Countless musicians regard the legendary folk singer and curator of the popular American song as a major influence on their work, but the old curmudgeon very rarely comments on other artist’s. Especially in the last decade, he has become increasingly reclusive, making fewer and fewer public appearances. Even in his heyday, he rarely commented on his own songwriting, never mind other people’s. He was always a bit of an enigma in that sense. But there was one unlikely musician who Bob Dylan marked out as having a real gift. That musician was Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Below, we take a look at what Dylan thought of the grunge icon. The first Nirvana song Dylan heard was a live version of ‘Polly’,  perhaps the darkest of all Nirvana’s songs.  Cobain wrote it after he heard of a teenage girl’s abduction, rape and torture when she was on her way home from a rock concert. Dylan had heard the song ...

(Image) - Bassist Krist Novoselic looks back fondly on his time in the 90's most influential band and says there's 'a secret' to be revealed in the coming year. SEATTLE — A kindly, middle-aged man outlines some of his organization's priorities in a YouTube clip: "Our projects include maintaining the Gray's River Cemetery, a wonderful place to visit loved ones..." But look a little more closely.  Behind the glasses, the face is familiar. Maybe that's because this small-town community leader is also a music legend. His name is Krist Novoselic. "The world was blowing up around us," he told KING 5 Evening, recalling the early days of the grunge music explosion. More than 30 years ago in Aberdeen, Novoselic and his friend, Kurt Cobain, started a little group called Nirvana. A few years later they'd become the biggest-selling band in the country. "Really didn't even realize what was going on," he said. A now-classic  Seattle...

(Image) - When the   very first trailer for  The Batman   arrived in August 2020, it came with a surprising bit of soundtracking – an orchestral, trailer-music-ified version of ‘Something In The Way’ by Nirvana. Sometimes such song choices are a case of just finding the right mood, or a specific connection with the lyrics – but in the case of   Matt Reeves ’ new take on DC’s Caped Crusader, there was a much more specific reason behind it. It’s a tune that got right to the heart of the filmmaker’s vision for the character – one that proved pivotal in shaping   Robert Pattinson ’s take on Bruce Wayne, the rich orphan who dons the cowl and shakes down Gotham’s criminal underworld. “When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’,” Reeves tells  Empire  in the upcoming  The Batman  issue. It’s a song that promises a very different take to recent big-screen Bats, from Chris...

  (Image) - Rock stars, generally speaking, are not fans of rules. This goes double for   Nirvana . The grunge icons were famously anti-establishment, gleefully throwing up literal or metaphorical middle fingers towards anyone they deemed as corporate, mainstream or lame. At the other end of the spectrum,  Top of the Pops , the hugely popular U.K. television show that aired weekly on the BBC from 1964 to 2006. In addition to playing top-charting songs, the show featured artists performing their biggest hits. However, the show’s strict rules meant that most guests weren’t really “performing” at all. In an effort to control every facet of the production,  Top of the Pops  routinely had its musical guests mime their way through songs. For stuffy network executives, the format made sense. Why risk curse words, miscues or unexpected acts of defiance when you can keep things completely predictable by having acts fake their way through a song? For a grunge band from ...

(Image) -Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (MTV Unplugged) -  (youtube.- Kurt Cobain and Nirvana A movement started with the band Nirvana and many believe its music was an anthem for a generation. Front man, Kurt Cobain is often seen as the leader of the grunge rock movement and spokesman for a generation of young people. This was a position that the introverted Cobain never wanted and felt uncomfortable with from the very first moments of the band’s success. Kurt Cobain’s life began in Aberdeen , Washington A memorial has been started to commemorate the contribution that Kurt Cobain made in music In 1987, Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain started the band that was eventually to become Nirvana. It wasn’t until 1988 that the two named the band Nirvana. 1988 is also the year that the band released their first album, Bleach. The album became a hit on the college radio circuit, but did not gain the kind of publicity and recognition that the bands second album had. Ni...